The highlight match of the 13th round of Serie A 2021/2022 between Inter Milan and Napoli at Giuseppe Meazza Stadium took place as attractive and dramatic as expected.
Better form with an unbeaten record from the beginning of the season helped Napoli come into the game better and open the scoring in the 17th minute. Insigne provided an assist for Zieliński to make a beautiful kick from a distance into the net of Handanovic. However, Inter also quickly re-balanced. In the 24th minute, Barella fell in the Napoli penalty area and the referee gave the home team 11m after consulting VAR. From the penalty spot, Calhanoglu easily equalized 1-1.
After the Turkish player's goal, the game took place at a slow pace, neither team dared to risk attack when both sides had very good counter-attacking players.
However, right at the last minute of the first half, Inter had a goal to take the lead. Calhanoglu cornered the corner to create an opportunity for Perisic to header delicately to send the ball over the goal line to Napoli.
Being led backwards, Napoli had no choice but to attack, but Spalletti's teachers and students suffered a loss of force in the 56th minute when the main striker Osimhen was injured and could not continue to play.
Taking advantage of Napoli's stalemate in attack, Inter had a goal to increase the score to 3-1 in the 61st minute with a quick counterattack. Correa was the one to pass the ball to Lautaro Martínez to finish the corner accurately.
When the gap was up to 2 goals, Napoli coach Spalletti was forced to play "all hands" in the last minutes when he launched Mertens and Elmas into the field. The Belgian scored a goal to shorten the score to 2-3 in the 78th minute but that was not enough to help Napoli get points. The match ended with a 3-2 win for Inter.
With this result, Napoli still leads in Serie A but they cannot create a difference in points compared to AC Milan, and Inter Milan themselves shorten the gap to 4 points.
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